On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> wrote:




If I'm understanding correctly, you have a host LV serving as a full drive

for a guest, and you want to mount the partitions that are stored within

that LV?



You probably want "kpartx", which will build a dm device for each

partition, based on the partition table it finds:



set up the dm slices:

sudo kpartx -a /dev/storagevg/drivelv

ls -l /dev/mapper/loop0p*



and to mount partition 2:

sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p2 /mnt/folder .....



after you're done:

sudo kpartx -d /dev/storagevg/drivelv





e.g. I've used this tool when converting KVM images:

http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2008/09/03/kvm-disk-image-filesystem-growth-notes/



--

Kees Cook

Ubuntu Security Team


Thank you.* I will try that out.

James

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